will.i.am
will.i.am
William Adams, known professionally as will.i.am, is an American hip hop recording artist, entrepreneur, actor, musician, DJ, record producer and philanthropist. He is best known as a founding member of the hip hop and R&B band The Black Eyed Peas, with whom he has received seven Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, a Teen Choice Award, two MTV Video Music Awards and three World Music Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth15 March 1975
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.
How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.
When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.
Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.
If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.
If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.
You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.